Not content with hassling air passengers at airports across the
country, the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) is now
implementing plans to stop vehicles traveling America’s highways and
byways, in the hope of finding terrorists and other lawbreakers. The
acronym that government brainiacs have concocted for this intrusive
program is “VIPR” — short for the “Visible Intermodal Prevention and
Response.”

Last month, Tennessee proudly announced it had partnered with the TSA
to become the first state to implement an extensive VIPR program.
Volunteer State officials have dubbed their program the less catchy
“First Observer Highway Security Program.”

To illustrate how this new program works, TSA and the Tennessee
Highway Patrol recently spent a day bothering truck drivers and
passengers by subjecting their cargoes to exhaustive searches. They also
warned drivers — in keeping with a common pastime at TSA and its parent
agency, the Department of Homeland Security, of developing a nation of
snitches — to “say something if they see something” that looks
suspicious.

According to Bill Gibbons, Tennessee’s Department of Safety and
Homeland Security commissioner, these security checkpoints, which are
manned by law enforcement units festooned in paramilitary outfits, are
absolutely necessary because terrorists are poised to strike our
nation’s roadways.

They've been doing this for years. Though we know from experience that the government couldn't find a terrorist if one took flying lessons or entered the country and over-sttayed a visa, stopping folks at random locations is nothing new. (Therre is seldom anyone more surprised than a "cop" when some sort of "illicit" person or product is discovered at a roadblock.)

Let's face it, 9/11 is the new scapegoat for every violation of anything, by some comic book government agency or functionary...Before all this, it was computers; and; before that it was just about anything to do with some drug-related item or incident - real or imagined.

I suspect that, for the TSA, an isolated traffic stop offers an improved potential for copping a feel or otherwise sexually or physically or verbally abusing folks.

Nobody should be surprised. Everyone ought to be pissed. This is just another on the ever-growing KMA list.